[np] Bolano

[rich]

i've sung its praises many times but if we're talking Latin American
lit, one can't find a better novel than Fuentes' Terra Nostra--not
really thrilled by any of his work in the last 20 yrs but I was pretty
amazed by the wonderful strangeness of that book

that's a book I have to read again
rich

On 10/30/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> this was terrific, thanks.....
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> I read those stories before I had much comparative knowledge....before
> kafka, or any other Latin American magic realists........or many other
> modernists......I was a 'cutting edge' reader before I had a cutting board,
> so to speak...
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> Maybe therefore some have stuck with me for their mysteriousness, their
> ambiguity without comprehension......the house one, the guy who turned into
> a fish by staring into an aquarium.....
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> Now I MUST reread them....
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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> --- On Thu, 10/29/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
>> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 11:09 PM
>> More on Cortazar and his short stories from
>> The Guardian:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/19/short-story-julio-cortazar
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>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM,
>> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>> just gotta correct for whoever conflated them.
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>> Jose Donoso wrote Obscene Bird of Night, an obscenely
>> brilliant book.
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>> Julio Cortazar wrote Hopscotch and the short story which
>> became the movie Blow-Up, which is when I learned his
>> name...
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>> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org>
>> wrote:
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>> > From: Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org>
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>> > Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
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>> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>> > Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8:27 PM
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>> > The Obscene Bird of Night is a great novel,
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>> > brilliant.  I have not read
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>> > Chile.  I didn't
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>> > think much of DS, but it's images keep popping
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>> > finish SD, I suggest skipping the rest of section 2
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>> > reading section 3.
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>> > FWIW, my tweeted review of IV (might be a mild
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>> > It's great, read it: Pynchon writes his own fanfic
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>> > shows Neal how it's
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